When searching for an exact two-word thread title the search results often break up the exact title I'm looking for.
For example, "Smoked Ribs" yields several results with "Ribs...+whatever" or "Smoked...+ whatever", but never the exact word-for-word title I'm searching for. It should instead tell me "Smoked Ribs" not found, but it doesn't. It gives me a bunch of thread titles containing the word "Smoked" or "Ribs".
I understand these are just key search words but it should give me results with the exact title I'm searching for.

All you have to do is surround the phrase you're looking for with quotes.

By the way, this same technique works with most search engines. It even works in a lot of applications, such as Microsoft Outlook, where you might want to search for an email containing a specific phrase.